Dáil debates

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
  e-Government Projects.
  • e-Government Projects. (50 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General special report No. 58 on e-Government in so far as it relates to areas for...
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Departmental Expenditure.
  • Departmental Expenditure. (15 speeches)
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the finance allocation to the Health Service Executive in 2008 will enable it to deliver the 2007 level of...
  • Accident and Emergency Services. (14 speeches)
    Question 10: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on figures provided for the board of the Health Service Executive which indicate that 44% of patients in hospital emergency...
  • Cancer Screening Programme. (12 speeches)
    Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the reported plans to outsource the reading of all 300,000 cervical smears outside this State to another continent,...
  • Health Service Staff. (4 speeches)
    Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her estimation of the number of general practitioners needed in the next ten and 20 years; her views on whether under current education...
  • Child Abuse. (38 speeches)
    Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has submitted to her a report for the first quarter of 2008 pursuant to the HSE national service plan...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Nursing Home Support Scheme.
  • Nursing Home Support Scheme. (39 speeches)
    Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the fair deal Nursing Home Support Scheme Bill; when she expects it will be returned from the Attorney General's office;...
• Adjournment Debate Matters (1 speech)
  I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Denis Naughten — the...
• Leaders' Questions (79 speeches)
  While the Tánaiste may find it a little facile or simplistic to raise cases in regard to health, I would like to make a point. Last Friday, The Irish Times reported that a woman named Kathleen...
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (5 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with several notices under Standing Order 32.
• Order of Business (112 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 16, Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008 — Committee and Remaining Stages; No. 10, motion re statement for information of voters on the Twenty-eighth...
• An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht 2008: Céim an Choiste. (0 speeches)
• Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (24 speeches)
  Before Committee Stage commences I wish to deal with a procedural matter relating to Bills to amend the Constitution. The substance of the debate on Committee Stage relates to the wording of the...
• Business of Dáil (7 speeches)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders: (1) The Dáil will sit later than 8.30 p.m. tonight and that the business shall be interrupted on the adjournment of Private Members'...
• An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht 2008: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha (0 speeches)
• Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (10 speeches)
  Atógadh an díospóireacht ar leasú a 6:
• Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint (0 speeches)
• Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (4 speeches)
  Tairgim: "GO ndéanfar an ráiteas atá leagtha amach sa Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Rún seo a fhorordú mar eolas do vótálaithe de bhun alt 23 d'Acht an Reifrinn 1994 (Uimh. 12 de 1994), i...
• Private Members' Business. (0 speeches)
  e-Government Services: Motion
  • e-Government Services: Motion (30 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the Government's e-Government strategy, which while recognising some notable successes, found...
• Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
• Health Care Associated Infections (5 speeches)
  I wish to share time with Deputy Andrew Doyle.
  • School Accommodation. (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this important issue for my constituency, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to give the go-ahead...
  • Local Authority Contracts. (2 speeches)
    I am pleased to have an opportunity to raise on the Adjournment my request that the Government afford some form of protection in law for suppliers and sub-contractors to main contractors which...
  • Natural Heritage Areas. (2 speeches)
    I raise this issue because it was brought to my attention by landowners in the Kenmare area that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, who I am...